Internet Archive employee Eliza Zhang digitizes a book. At the Internet Archive, we never destroy a book by cutting off its binding. Instead, we digitize it the hard way--one page at a time.

We use the Scribe, a book scanner our engineers invented, along with the software that it runs. Our scanning centers are located in universities and libraries around the world, from Boston Public Library to the University of Toronto to the Wellcome Library and beyond.

Eliza is one of our fastest and most accurate scanners. Next she will execute quality control checks and fix any errors. Then she ships the book back to our Physical Archive for long-term preservation. Scanners like Eliza have done this 2,000,000 times to provide our patrons with a free digital library.

Learn more about this video and our digitization program here: http://blog.archive.org/2021/02/09/meet-eliza-zhang-book-scanner-and-viral-video-star/

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